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What an epic episode. I loved seeing Al and Pride's battle animated, although I was imagining him to be a little more silent in it... Yay for Armstrong siblings, and YES for the epic preview! I'm sorry, but that has to be one of the most teasing previews ever. Perhaps I'm a little biased because the next episode's covering one of my favourite chapters in the manga...

I mean first we get that outstanding piece of animation for the Al vs Pride, along with the great scenes for the Sloth fight. Obvious best part of the episode was Yoki's epic scene with a brilliant new piece of music to go with it. Actually while on that topic, we had a good number of new pieces in this episode, along with the return of some old favourites for some seriously good music placement.

Insert song was pretty nice was well, and totally unexpected. I like.

Epic end to this episode, and next weeks features one of my favorite all time moments from the manga. With the way this is going, it being animated will blow me away.

Damn this episode was amazing. There are so many fights going on and yet everything felt right. I especially liked the battle the Armstrong siblings were putting up. Great to see Alex stepping up and really helping his sister out. Sloth is one dangerous enemy. Not really in tactics, but being a fast tank!

That preview was evil. I want next week's episode now! Not reading the manga I didn't think we'd get to see that happen after such a long wait.

Now why didin't we recieve such awesome animation threw out the entire series lol. These latest ep are quite top notch.

I didnt expect that speed out of sloth >-<;

and nothing more to say but <3 envy and looking forward to next week!

Hehe, well the concept/sin of sloth isn't really being slow: It's being able, but unwilling. Sloth is both incredibly strong and super fast, but he doesn't do what he is actually capable of doing out of laziness/apathy

Brotherhood just keeps outdoing itself. This final arc is full of awesome moments one after the other, and they're definitely making the most of it. And the best part is that every character gets to shine.

The first that comes to mind is definitely Alphonse. The major smackdown he layed on Pride and Kimblee in the first few minutes of the episode was absolutely epic and the animation was fittingly very high quality, the kind of which I hope to see in next week's episode as well. And it wasn't just in terms of action that Al got to show off his awesomeness. I'd always loved his "Why can't I save both us and the world?" speech in the manga, and Rie Kugimiya's great performance only made it better.

And of course, Kimblee's reply was also very awesome and typical of him. It's a shame that he was taken out by a relatively minor character though, but it didn't piss me off as much as when I read it in the manga. Pride eating him was also pretty well done with a very fitting creepy BGM. Speaking of Pride, even after it looked like the good guys got the best of him there, they're actually just playing into his hand and heading towards the exact place he wants them to be. "Brave humans sure are easy to trick", haha. Still, props to Yoki. Even a loser can have a crowning moment of awesome!

Next, the Armstrong siblings vs Sloth, another great fight. And one which should show all those who thought Olivier was stronger than Alex because of their comic relief fight a few episodes back. Who saved whose ass there? Yep, good ol' manly Alex. Though of course, Olivier still got to be her usual awesome self, with her lecture to the indecisive soldiers at the end. "Think for yourself" indeed.

And man, though I do think Rain is too mellow an OP for FMA, hearing it alongside Romi Paku's hot-blooded screams while Ed and the rest beat the crap out of those zombies sure was cool.

So yeah, all in all, amazing episode. Nearly perfect. My only complaint would be that for some reason they left out this great panel from the manga:

Spoiler:

But oh well.

As for the preview, it was pretty good at hinting on the awesomeness that is about to unfold without actually spoiling anything. But I couldn't help but notice and shake my head at Envy's transformation in it, which was clearly reused animation from his fight with Marcoh in episode 43. Getting lazy there, Bones?

This episode was action packed! Non stop from beginning to end. Was there even a commercial break? because there was no eyecatch. There's so much going on and we (non-manga readers) still don't know what Bradley, Lan Fan, Greed/Ling and Hohenheim are doing.

they let themselves go with this one. very well done. it looks like the ep i've been waiting for will FINALLY happen next week. i always thought it would be the next one from like 3 eps ago, and here it finally is. i cannot wait for it.